Years of The Future - How To Make Design Continue to Permeate Innovation

How can we continue to future proof the unknown? Design is often the way.The idea of design often includes the job, work, construction, activity, purpose, embodiment, and use of that which does not exist yet. It has encompassed critical path analysis, operations, and in the beginning many methods of the scientific approach as well as design science ( if such a thing can be said ) often coming very close to pure science and engineering rather than the larger imagery and poetry of broader ideas and thoughts which design is keen to involve itself. But is that enough ? Should there be more ? There always is. 

 

With larger efforts to integrate and shift to user participatory involvement, political, ideological, psychological, managerial, administrative, legal and economical aspects, a democratic model became part of the vocabulary of design and thus " innovation " as a mechanism for change entered into the minds of firms who put design front and center in their ethos for greater successes, but again why ? Could there be even more ? We are on that cusp of that focus. 

 

In Investigating Design we see how specific models of systematic design mindsets and toolsets can lay controlled and rectilinear way of seeing not only for design as a value added system and way of achieving specific outcomes as well as integrating a full poetic capability for an even greater value to those who use such systems. But in the next generation of change, we see the full possibilities of how emerging technologies such as classical AI, quantum computers implementing AI functionalities and yet to be discovered capabilities will push even further what design and design thinking can uncover for those that embrace such tools and emerging modalities. The future is clearly designed.

                    

   

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It’s with great pleasure we share the 20th anniversary of iGNITIATE !

Since 2001, the entire iGNITIATE team as had tremendous experiences designing, engineering and delivering innovation successes to our global clients, working closely with our world wide partners and building our international team through slow and steady growth – a testament to patience and focused persistence: the definition of design innovation.

We’d like to take the time to thank everyone involved in the evolution of iGNITIATE since it’s formation and here is to many more success with our global clients, world wide partners and outstanding international team ! 

                    

   

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The Challenge Of Responsible Design

Via Tabula Rosa what can be created? Anything. With no constraints what is possible? Everything. And, therein the difficulty.

In the world of science, technology, and society, a specific design discipline sometimes referred to as STS exists as the intersection of not only the social impact but also that of usability when evaluating sometimes radical design possibilities. Should something not exist then it cannot be used, but if designed, it can, and even if that design does come into existence it may not be allowed to be used for sometimes specific government, corporate or other regulation. The designers job then becomes the tacit navigation of the complex aspects of needs to produce X design and the responsibility of the evolution that comes from said design efforts.

The balance ( for products focusing on ground breaking design and via ) the STS toolset lets us consider Underdetermination, Realm(s) of Possibility, Consequentiality, Political Construction, Competing Images, Ultimate Ends, and the Embrace of Patterns in the creation of the future that is unfolding. Where product & service designers may be primarily concerned with direct and short term current end user needs, in different modalities of design ( conceptual, future, disruptive, etc., ) a shift based mentality can be enabled and in doing so, the STS toolset can be engaged to expand the capability for radicality to emerge. We see this in detail in The Challenge of Responsible Design and as further expanded by the work of Donald A. Norman and Roberto Verganti as they explore the ideas and implementations of how incremental and radical innovation can be investigated and applied in design research for technological advancement when changes of meaning are taking place and or in unintended ways due to the systems and products that we are launching at an alarming rate. 

 

                    

   

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Breaking Design & Innovation Barriers in Cross-Cultural Design

Often the reality of inculcating new design paradigms from deeply embedded cultural queues is no small task. Until now. Or Then. Depending on how you look at it.

In a detailed, yet fluid enough system, A Case Study of a Cross-cultural Product Design Model helps to organize possible vectors for integrating Cultural Layers and Design features so as to create the balance necessary for successful design and innovation efforts as well as full fledged organizational change. From factors such as Physical / Material, Social and Spirtual/Ideal to Visceral, Behavioral, and Reflective we are able to use a new type of balancing act and which allows for the best of specific new design paradigms to emerge for either new product development or organization change. More specifically we see the capability to evolve such a model to be able to predict based on social and international standards possible design and functional capabilities yet to come.

 

                    

   

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Service Design - Making Moving To A Self Contained Mode Of Delivery Happen

Design itself has had major internal transformations via its capabilities but none so much over the past 70 years as with the emerging of a softer and more inclusive ways of connecting the dots of the future that local and global firms are enabling. But how?

Recently in Service Innovation Design in Cultural and Creative Industry we see how the evolution of the teams F's model: for “Function” ; “Friendly”; “Fun” ; “Fancy” and most recently for “Feeling" has greatly shaped the way that innovation and more specifically the service of delivering a ground breaking new capability continues to emerge and change while at the same time staying true to delivery of possible game changing end goal functionality thus increasing the value usability of what has been uncovered. Interestingly as more and more capability is centered around an integrated model of convergence in the design process, we see multiple models for the way evolution and granularity can work hand in hand to deliver the future we are evolving into.

  

                    

   

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Operational ( Design ) Innovation Means Practical Quality

Innovation itself as a specific effort is often not a linear process by any stretch of imagination ( although there are countless systems that an create a feeling of linear innovation ) and especially within the context of corporate innovation, the process itself often sits somewhere between new product development and brainstorming. But what if there were a specific way to not only codify but shepard more effectively the innovation process to as to increase effectiveness ? Well there is.

 

In " Exploring Operational Practices and Archetypes of Design Thinking " we see the way and some of the underlying capabilities of Cooperative Understanding, Aspirational Visioning, Truth Seeking, Comprehensive Solution, Optimistic Collaborating, Analytical Prototyping, Personal Reflecting and how this directly impacts the most effective manifestations of design, design thinking and specifically disruptive design efforts such as Training ( more formally known as warmups )  Marathons,  Relays, and  Sprints.

When it comes to the integration of such tools and capabilities, what is key to understand in the innovation cycle is that the ability to balance designer led v.s team driven and low urgency v.s high urgency needs to be carefully articulates to determine the exact nature of the innovation process to use, with, the most important factor to understand is that by the time a full systemic innovation is taking place the above processes are more often associated with new product development efforts but where the same tools still can be used effectively.

                    

   

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